Lack of potable water at the Anwomaso community clinic in the Ashanti region is hampering quality health delivery in the area. Health workers say they are compelled to ask patients in labour to carry water from their homes to the clinic before delivery. The challenge, according to the midwifery officer Mary Salifu, has resulted in […]
Liberia has recently said it was free of Ebola, meaning there are now no known cases in West Africa of the tropical virus that has left more than 11,300 people dead in the region since late 2013. Liberia was the country worst hit with more than 4,800 Liberians killed by the virus, and was awaiting
The Ashanti Region has recorded yet another robbery incident as police pursue 19 suspected notorious robbers who have been declared wanted. It comes in the wake of a warning by regional command officials to the suspects to turn themselves in to the police or face their wrath. The warning appears to have done little to
Chad has sent 2,000 troops to Niger to prepare a counterattack against Boko Haram after the militant group seized a Nigerien town, two senior military sources said on Wednesday. The sources, one at Chadian military command in N’Djamena and another in the Lake Chad region where Boko Haram operates, told Reuters the troops arrived on
The undersigned indigenes of Abenase Edwinase and Asaapong in the Ejisu-Juaben Municipality have observed with keen interest in the long protracted chieftaincy dispute bedeviling these communities in our time has taken a new twist. The Abenase chieftaincy dispute started after the sudden demise of the late Nana Yaw Boakye, who was the occupant of the
Otumfuo Osei Tutu II has disclosed that politicians are responsible for the destruction of large tracks of arable lands in the country by illegal miners known in local parlance as galamsey operators. He accused the politicians of pursuing their clandestine interest to the neglect of the citizenry by failing to enforce laws to minimize the
A Public Interest Advocate, Dr Ernest Kwarko, has called for the possible relocation of the National Capital from Accra, to a higher ground. This, he believes, could immediately reduce the impact of the perennial Accra floods by about 50%. He made this proposition in an interview, on the sideline of a radio programme on NyansapO,OTEC
Ghana’s former President Jerry John Rawlings has described a publication in the May edition of Africawatch Magazine that he has been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease as a complete falsehood. The story published in the May edition of the controversial Africawatch magazine is titled “Now This Man needs your prayers, Parkinson’s disease eats Rawlings’ strength away.”
The Manhyia palace has waded into the ensuing impasse between irate residents of Krofrom in Kumasi and the regional Police command, urging calm among the two parties.The locals of the Ashanti region town have been on rampage over the death of 22-year-old Richmond Osei aka Tawiah following alleged police brutality. Family members and town folks
A New Patriotic Party (NPP) Polling Station Chairman for Apotuogya DA Primary in the Bosomtwe District of the Ashanti Region has been shot dead by suspected armed robbers. Baah Tweneboah popularly known as Agya Baah was shot in his house around 9pm after returning from work. Agya Baah who worked as an Agricultural Extension Officer
